How did you get up there?
It wasn't easy. - Egg Shen from "Big Trouble in Little China"
Here's a very short silent video that was recorded in real time showing IAR Workbench up and going with the Giant Gecko.
It is best viewed in full screen mode so you can read the screen text.
I am using Windows 7 and all I did was follow the instruction pamphlet to a point and had to improvise when a reference to a CD was made.
1. Install Simplicity Studio
2. Install IDE of choice (In my case IAR Workbench for ARM)
3. Connect Giant Gecko to PC using USB cable.
The video shows how easy it is to test the examples after the above steps were completed.
- I used Windows Explorer to open the directory where Simplicity Studio installed its examples.
In the examples you will find;
"Hello World" of the microcontrollers - "Blink LED" (in the blink folder).
The originally loaded thermometer program (in inttemp folder).
- From there you navigate into the example of your choice.
- From there you navigate into its iar folder
- In there you will find a .eww file. This is an IAR Workspace file. It contains the links to the source code and project settings.
- I double click the .eww Workspace file to launch IAR Workbench and open it.
- Once loaded, I build, download the compiled program to the Giant Gecko and start the debugger.
- I show that the debugger is active by stepping over a couple of functions in the program using the Step Over function.
- Then I launch the program by clicking Go!
If you look at the video carefully (00:004) you will find the path where the examples are located when installed by Simplicity Studio.
%HOMEDRIVE\%HOMEPATH%\AppData\Roaming\energymicro\kits\EFM32GG_STK3700\examples
The AppData folder is hidden so you may have to alter you settings in Windows Explorer to navigate toit.
Enjoy.
